Material Culture in the Social World
Subtitle: Values, Activities, Lifestyles
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780335198221
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Industrial / Commercial Art & Design; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Sociology - General; Anthropology - General; Material Culture; Social interaction
First sentence: Humans stand apart from other animal species not only because of their upright posture, the size of their brains, their use of language and the opposition between thumb and forefinger, but also because of the way they create, use and live with a wide variety of material objects.